1292Incidence of norovirus-associated acute gastroenteritis in four Veteran's Affairs Medical Center populations in the United States, 2011-2012
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1292. Incidence of norovirus-associated acute gastroenteritis in four Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center populations in the United States, 20112012 Scott Grytdal, MPH; David Rimland, MD; S. Hannah Shirley,; Maria C. RodriguezBarradas, MD; Matthew Bidwell Goetz, MD; Sheldon Brown,; Cynthia LuceroObusan, MD; Mark Holodniy, MD; Christopher Graber, MD, MPH; Umesh D. Parashar, MBBS, MPH; Jan Vinje, PhD; Benjamin a. Lopman, PhD, MSc; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; VA Medical Center, Decatur, GA; Infectious Diseases and Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX; Infectious Diseases, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; Office of Public Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC; Office of Public Health Surveillance and Research, Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto, CA; VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Division of Viral Diseases, Atlanta, GA
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Incidence of Medically-Attended Norovirus-Associated Acute Gastroenteritis in Four Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center Populations in the United States, 2011-2012
An estimated 179 million acute gastroenteritis (AGE) illnesses occur annually in the United States. The role of noroviruses in hospital-related AGE has not been well-documented in the U. S. We estimated the population incidence of community- acquired outpatient and inpatient norovirus AGE encounters, as well as hospital-acquired inpatient norovirus AGE among inpatients at four Veterans Affairs ...
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